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Comfort Women - Sexual Slavery in WWII? |
28 March 2007 |
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 Japan's ongoing row with its neighbours over its wartime use of sex slaves deepened earlier this month. It is estimated that as many as 200,000 women, mainly from China and South Korea, were made to work in about 2,000 "comfort stations" - a euphemism for brothels - across Asia from the early 1930s until Japan's defeat in 1945. Less than three weeks ago the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, appeared to distance his government from Japan’s 1993 unofficial apology to these women.
However on Monday he backtracked over his country's role but stopped short of acknowledging that the so-called ‘comfort women’ had been forcibly recruited by the Japanese military. Jenni will be talking to Jan Ruff O’Herne, a survivor of the brothels, anthropologist Hideko Mitsui, Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies, at the Temple University in Tokyo and Mr Tomohiko Taniguchi, Deputy Press Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Japan, to discuss why, over 60 years later, a final position cannot be reached with which the surviving women, the government and the Japanese people would be happy.
BBC News
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